Mounting fixed and removable disks with KDE
If you're among the people running KDE, and if you want to be
able to have KDE handle removable and fixed disks properly during
the HAL subsystem, there's a
suggestion by David Brownlee
to achieve this.

To get removable devices automatically mounted and a file browser
pop up, add the following to /usr/pkg/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf:

David writes that ``[w]ith the above plugging in a USB flash drive into my amd64 laptop pops up a
notification window, clicking on it opens dolphin, and clicking on the
device in dolphin correctly mounted it.''

A similar thing can be achieved for fixed disks, by adding the following
data:

KDE4 on NetBSD @ Linuxdays.at in Dornbirn
Raphael Langerhorst has pointed me at an entry in
his blog about his success with
KDE4 on NetBSD,
and how he used it to show KDE and NetBSD at the Linuxdays.at show
in Dornbirn.
In short,
``KDE 4 runs on NetBSD''.

Starting up KDE manually
In next week's SysAdmin class, I'll talk a bit about X and all the
bits around it. The end of that session is usually a demonstration
on how to start up KDE from a remote machine, without using the
"startkde" script. As I always forget the exact steps, I had to
re-read the "startkde" script, and for your amusement (and if you
want to try it, e.g. in Xnest :), here is the rap:

kwin &amp

kdesktop

kicker

Easy. If you know. :) The main part of this is actually done
by the "ksmserver", which runs everything in the KDE "autorun"
directory. Here's what is really ran: